Meaning

Primary

Head Of Rice

Alternative

Ear Of Rice

Word Type

noun

Explanation

A head of plant of a rice plant is the head of rice or ear of rice.

Reading

いなほ
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

This word uses kun'yomi readings for (いな) and (). You may not be familiar with the いな reading yet, but it appears in a lot of compounds that use , so it's good to know. Here's a mnemonic to help:

To get a big head of rice on your rice plant, have it eat nachos (いな). Not literally, of course, but like… give it some nacho fertilizer. If you let rice plants eat nacho (fertilizer), you'll have the biggest, most high-yielding heads of rice ever.

Context

Context Sentences

お米は私達の主食ですが、だからといって日本人全員が風に靡く美しい金色の稲穂を見た事がある訳ではありません。

Rice is our staple food, but that doesn't mean all Japanese people have seen beautiful, golden ears of rice bowing in the breeze.

Kanji Composition